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Server didn’t need more memory but I upgraded the memory anyway to 8gb just because I felt like it.

This server is still very underutilised and I havent even had to upgrade to 8gb ram yet which is something I have been waiting for. Uptime is now continuously above 99% so if anyone has any friends they want to invite please do. The server doesnt take much work and is cheap and simple so no reason to fill it.

Any issues let me know. For pictures loading this will be improved when stable version of pictrs is released as I will change to image proxying. This is not currently supported in 4.0 and only arriving in 5.0.

Any other performance issues let me know. Im not aware of any.

In order to keep lemmy.myserv.one clean and the rest of the fediverse, it would be helpful to have members who are interested to assist in checking new user accounts that are created are not troll/spam accounts.

Currently when a new user signs up, an email is generated to admin staff with their username so that after a suitable delay we can review their comment history/posts and delete any user who is just a spambot or a troll looking to harm communities.

So far just one user has had to be removed in this way, but I expect there to be more as time goes on. In addition you may be contacted by other instances admins/mod teams from time to time via DM asking to ban a user if they have egregious behavior. This has never happened yet, but eventually one day I am sure it will.

If you are interested in helping please DM me so I can review your account (ie you are a normal person) and have been posting/using the server and have a vested interest in helping out.

Kind regards P

Unfortunately there will be some downtime later as I work on optimisation of the database which is a problem for lemmy instances at the moment and will mean the site is inaccessible for an hour at some point later while I take a dig around and aee what O can change.

Maintenance time has been moved from 3AM daily to 3:16AM daily. Maintenance takes about 10 minutes. EDT time. This was done because I needed to script something else first. Tnx.

To combat email issues over the past week I have upgraded the email setup and security so it will hopefully be more reliable.

P

Currently this instance is run by just me, however there is currently an effort started to figure out what happens if I am away on holiday and there is an emergency/site down situation with other trusted instance admins.

It will be a long work in progress, starting simple but eventually enabling another trusted admin to do everything to get the server back online including start/stop the vps via api calls if it has died.

To begin with I am working on this with just 1 other admin for now - the admin from boulder.ly - who is creating a docker image that will allow us to connect to each other instances and resolve basic problems. This will be extended as we have time to add them.

Also I am having to create the workflow and documentation on what to do in various scenarios and the commands and processes and procedures to do them.

Eventually also (although not being worked on now) we will need to consider how bills are paid if another admin dies/drops off the face of the earth and how that process might look. For now we will have to leave this until the more basic stuff is in place.

This is a complex procedure for various reasons especially revolving around access rights and permissions so I will keep you updated as we progress. It will be some weeks before the basic stuff is ready but main thing to know is its a problem being worked on so that we are not in the situation where an instance is run by just 1 person who cant be available 24/7 and there will be eventually some way to protect users if real life happens to the owner of the site.

As there is a lot of work to get even a simple setup going please be patient, it is being worked on slowly and will be a constant work in progress for some time.

Have been getting some training from other instance admin on how to configure this. Will require a lot of changes to accomplish this change. So will be looking into setting this up later next week once I have accommodated all the basic stuff that needs to be done first. Once this is ready to be done I will let you know then deploy it to this site and (hopefully) not cause downtime during the change.

Pete

User tried, ok? No judgment.